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How To: Make My Coconut & Lime Body Scrub

My Coconut & Lime body scrub is pretty renowned amongst my friends and family. At Christmas I make huge batches of the stuff, to dish out as cute handmade gifts and to fulfil the requests from friends of friends and friends of friends of friends. It would appear that its fruity fragrance and moisturising effect rivals that of products available from the high street. Not only does it look great on your bathroom shelf and make your skin feel amazing, it is also super simple and cheap to make! So here is what you need, where you can buy it from and how you do it…

Equipment

Method

Place your coconut oil in a microwaveable dish then melt it in the microwave. I take the dish out every 20 seconds to stir then return until fully melted. This will take about 40-60 seconds depending on your oil.

Pour all of the melted coconut oil onto the granulated sugar and stir until fully combined.

Add the lime essential oil, I find 12 drops makes the fragrance strong enough to last without it becoming overpowering, but feel free to use as much as you like!

Add the desiccated coconut and stir together.

Spoon into your jars, pressing lightly with the back of your spoon to avoid large air spaces forming in the jar.

Add labels (time to get creative, I made mine using Canva then printed on to card that I stuck on to the jar with a glue gun) and voila it really is that easy!

Melt the Oil

Mix the Oil and Sugar

Make Your Labels

Add Label to Jar

Uses

The scrub is perfect for exfoliating skin in the shower or bath. Rub the scrub onto damp skin in a circular motion, then wash off any remaining scrub and massage in the remaining oils. The scrub will keep for several weeks.

From start to finish this should not take you longer than 15 minutes and all in all will cost you around £1 to make, plus the cost of your jar if you choose to buy one but you can then reuse the jar the next time you want to make this gorgeous scrub!

I make these little pots of joy as part of my homemade beauty hampers, as seen below. Watch this space, or follow the site, to find out how I make the rest of the products including relaxing bath salts, goat’s milk soap, shea butter body butter and peppermint foot scrub!

Speak soon

Katie x

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Katie Anderson is a 26 year old first generation, female farmer who has opened an educational smallholding in rural East Essex. She also keeps herself out of trouble by growing her small flock of native & rare breed sheep and selling her free range eggs, pork, turkey and saltmarsh lamb. She hopes her blog will inspire others to join the industry, however her honest posts and 5am lambing selfies are likely to have the opposite effect!
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Meet Katie

Welcome to the Female Farmer UK blog! This site is run by Katie, a 26 year old, first generation farmer who opened an educational, working smallholding in Essex in Jan ’17. She also keeps herself out of trouble by growing her small flock of native & rare breed sheep, selling a range of produce and working for neighbouring farmers.